These were the titles I read and reread as I thought and wrote about the woman we came to know simply as Julia. A complete list of Julia Child’s books, television shows, and DVDs can be found at www.juliachildfoundation.org.
JULIA CHILD
Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noël Riley Fitch
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child & Avis DeVoto, edited by Joan Reardon
Backstage with Julia: My Years with Julia Child by Nancy Verde Barr
A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS by Jennet Conant
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
Julia Child: A Life by Laura Shapiro
Julia Child’s The French Chef by Dana Polan
M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child & Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table by Joan Reardon
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS by Elizabeth P. McIntosh
AND OTHERS
The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition by M.F.K. Fisher
Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
My Kitchen Wars by Betty Fussell
Paris Journal 1944–1955 by Janet Flanner
The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones
GENERAL FOOD HISTORY
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Setting the Table for Julia Child: Gourmet Dining in America, 1934–1961 by David Strauss
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Laura Shapiro
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp
Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows by Kathleen Collins